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Yesterday all my add-ons(themes) were made compatible with Aurora and I tried them as well.There were no problems.Today I saw 3 letters from Mozilla in my inbox telling me that they have made 3 themes compatible.Yesterday they were 9 and now 6 of them are back to 4.0.* .I tested them and I didn’t see any problems.Why were they made incompatible with Firefox 5.0a2?Are they going to be compatible again or I have to upload archives again and wait until the reviewer approves them?

Last night there was an error that mistakenly bumped compatibility more add-ons than we intended to. We reverted that today and then ran the real bump.

Having said that, I don’t know why any themes would be incompatible. You can update compatibility without uploading a new file by just going to your Developer Tools and clicking Compatibility next to the theme.

I’ll file a bug for investigation as to why your themes weren’t updated.